Public liability law covers a wide range of circumstances where a person suffers injury or death as a result of another person's negligence or failure to take reasonable care. You may need accident claim solicitors to advise you on whether you have a claim or not.  Examples of public liability claims include:

• Slips or falls
• School accidents
• Playground accidents
• Amusement venue accidents
• Recreational and sporting accidents
• Domestic accidents
• Aviation accidents
• Food poisoning
• Dog attacks
• Physical assaults
• Diving accidents
• Shopping Centre accidents
• Supermarket accidents

It is important that you seek independent legal advice from accident claim solicitors at the earliest opportunity after your injury to advise you about the assessment process for claims.

 WHAT IS PRODUCT LIABILITY?

Product liability is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause.

There are three major types of product liability claims:

• manufacturing defect,
• design defect,
• a failure to warn.

Manufacturing defects are those that occur in the manufacturing process and usually involve poor-quality materials or shoddy worksmanship. Design defects occur where the product design is inherently dangerous or useless (and hence defective) no matter how carefully manufactured. Failure-to-warn defects arise in products that carry inherent nonobvious dangers which could be mitigated through adequate warnings to the user, and these dangers are present regardless of how well the product is manufactured and designed for its intended purpose.

There is also strict liability involving misrepresentation by the manufacturer that the product was suitable for the purpose and would be safe to use.

It is important that you seek independent legal advice from product liability claims solicitors at the earliest opportunity after your injury to advise you about the assessment process for claims.